OTTAWA—Is it time for the federal government to name an independent review of Canada’s pandemic response?
The prime minister says no, not now, while we’re still in the midst of the crisis; there’ll be time for that later.
Yet, as Canada stares down the emergence of variants, warnings of a third wave and predictions that this is not the last global pandemic to come, figuring out where we went wrong and what we need to fix is a mammoth and pressing task.
It may be one that a minority Parliament — where opposition parties and the government vie to frame ballot questions for the next election, whenever it comes — is ill placed to tackle with the objectivity and impartiality required.
